U+FE45 "﹅" Sesame Dot Unicode Character

U+FE45 "﹅" Sesame Dot is a small, vertically oriented punctuation mark that resembles a single sesame seed, used primarily in traditional Chinese and Japanese typography as a type of emphasis or annotation dot. It belongs to the CJK Compatibility Forms block, where it serves as a vertical variant of the horizontal dot, often employed to highlight text or indicate a pause in classical East Asian writing systems. Its name derives from its visual similarity to a sesame seed, and it complements its counterpart U+FE46, the horizontal Sesame Dot, providing directional versatility in historical and contemporary multilingual documents.

General Properties

Code Point	U+FE45
Version Added	3.2
Name	Sesame Dot
Block	CJK Compatibility Forms
General Category	Other Punctuation
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	﹅
HTML Hex Encoding	﹅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xEF 0xB9 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0xFE45
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000FE45
C/C++/Java Escape	\ufe45

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Bopomofo Hangul Han Hiragana Katakana
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Pattern Syntax	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other